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had anything to do with this fishery during these years, can doubt it. I have 

 seen it myself, ami remember distinctly what an impression it made on me 

 when in 1883 I visited Frederikshavu for the first time, and saw the plaice 



there. What large fish I saw. compared to those which were then caught in 

 our southern seas; and now it is sometimes vice versa. Every fish-monger 

 in Frederikshavu who lias dealt in plaice during these years will be able to 

 confirm my words. 



It will be clear from the above that we now get a .••■Dialler profit in money 

 than before from the fisheries in the < 'attegat, east of the Skaw, the fishing- 

 grounds, consequently, which have suffered most; and though the statistics 

 make no difference between the plaice which are fished in the Cattegat and 

 the German Sea (the Skager Rack), when they are only fished by the boats 

 which belong to the Cattegat, yet. in spite of the great development of the 

 fishery, they show no considerable advance in the profit of late years. The 

 profit of the fishery of flat-fish, Id as well as outside tin- Cattegat, from all the 



hunts vast of Ha- Skair' ) WOS in 



I f, 024,74 1 score and 



1885 c. 9*5,070 kroner. 



I 50,894 lbs. 



I 823,525 score and 



1886 c. 809,791 — 



I 5(1,505 lbs. 



I 913,161 score and 



1887 c. 902,797 — 



I 287,541 lbs. 



I 092,635 score and 



1888 e. 1,026,925 — 



I 343,485 lbs. 



I 822,915 score and 



1889 c. 1,391,069 — 



I 487,762 lbs. 



I 886.503 score ami 

 1*90 c. 1,390,568 — 



I 588,364 lbs. 



„ „ ,„ I 757,760 score and 



1891 c. 1,303,816 



I 492,538 lbs. 



1892 c. 1,449,335 - j 871 < 139 s «" e »» d 



I 485,580 lbs. 



That moreover a great number of fish under the authorized size limit are 

 carried ashore may be concluded from the opposition which is always met 

 with, whenever the question of forbidding it is discussed. These too little 

 fish are so easy to catch that they may he taken in great numbers by any 

 open boat from laud. Fortunately there seems to be no want of them, and 1 



* The table is based on the official reports by Lieutenant C. J. Hansen, R. N. 



